“…Stunting is a process of suppressing the normal growth of an individual by manipulating various factors that affect the growth process. Stunting in fishes has been explained by manipulating various factors like high stocking rate (Wedemeyer and McLeay, 1981;Pickering, 1981;Wedemeyer, 1997, Jena et al, 1998, Das et al, 2016, low food availability (Abdel-Hakim et al, 2009;Ali et al, 2003), photoperiod manipulation (Boeuf and Bail, 1999;Bani et al, 2009) etc. The effect of environmental variables on the growth, survival and physiological responses of fish have been thoroughly studied (Jobling, 2002).…”